Re: Another phonological extreme, was: Nine

--- Rob Nierse <rob.nierse@...> wrote:

> Once I did a little study on Circassian, because I was thrilled by
> the
> sounds.
> I still remember the teacher being enthousiastic when he returned
> from
> fieldwork: he had founda phoneme not yet discovered before: I believe
> it was c^' and was in a word that meant "picking up from the ground
> sitting
> in the saddle of a riding horse".
> Most found him weird for being enthousiastic about discovering a
> sound,
> But I understood him.
You should see Starostin's reconstruction of Proto-Northwest Caucasian!

http://starling.rinet.ru/texts/pref7.htm

Make sure you use the Times Star or Courier Star fonts!

http://starling.rinet.ru/timestr.zip

If you use IE, go to Internet Options, then Fonts, then set User
Defined to Times New Roman Star (for proportional) and Courier New Star
(for monospaced).  Set encoding to User Defined to view pages.

By the way, these fonts are great for phonemics!

DaW.

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